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Posts from 2004 to 2017. This was a personal blog during a fairly chaotic decade in independent publishing — some of it tech commentary, some of it Australia, some of it ephemera. It’s kept here in full for anyone who arrives via an old link.
Current writing lives at SiliconANGLE.
Yahoo! Flickr maps mashup is completely useless
So Flickr now allows you to geocode your pictures using Yahoo! maps via drag and drop…great, only that Yahoo! Maps is completely and utterly useless outside of the United States and Canada. This is as close as I could get to geocoding my shots from the Big Brother Live Eviction show: Thinking that given the […]
kvetches? WT?
My new word for today: kvetch, or it’s variation, kvetches. I’d never heard the word prior to today, and yet Jeremy used a variation of it (kvetchy) in an email I was party to, and Dave Winer used it in a post. According to The Free Dictionary, kvetch means: 1. A chronic, whining complainer. 2. […]
A battle for blog news supremacy?
There’s some good things happening out in the blog news field of late; competition is good for readers and it’s good for blog news junkies (like me 🙂 ). Each site has some great strengths, and yet none of them look like taking a clear lead in terms of what they are delivering at the […]
September glory
The score says it all: Fremantle 18.10 (118) West Coast 8.13 (61). The underdogs whip the silvertail, drink driving, gangster socialising Weagles. GO THE DOCKERS!
UK Telegraph writer caught copying work
This sheilas a brunette so she cant even use dumb blonde as an excuse: Threadwatch has the details, but compare and contract, the Mediabistro.com post was the first to be published. Tags: Stupid Sheila Pommy journalists
Blaugh hits the spot
Looks like Chris Pirillo’s comic venture is improving…certainly this comic is dead on 🙂
And on the 8th day, god delivered a working Australian EPG for MCE, and all was good in the world
I was having a look around the Australian Media Centre Community Boards this evening and I found this: EPG Stream, a free, working, integrated MCE EPG for Australia…and when I say integrated I mean it, unlike some of the other half arsed efforts out their by people to deliver Australian program guides into MCE via […]
Wii…I’m disapointed
This from the Beeb. I haven’t personally owned a game console since the Atari 2600, and yet I was really, really looking forward to the Wii, it sounds like the sort of console a non-console gamer like me would want, and yet if the beeb article is correct it will come in at around $420 […]
Ze on the rules of flying
the show with zefrank
I don’t get cold tea
Just noticed this post over on Southern ByWays (a b5media blog) on a recipe for “sweet tea…southern style” which made me think: I don’t get cold tea. It seems to be a big American thing, and whilst you can still buy cans of “Lipton Ice” at supermarkets in Australia, they don’t sell a lot of […]
The demise of the political bloggers
Andrew Sullivan has some interesting figures on the decline in readership of US political blogs this year. The question is though is, have political blogs had their day? I can see some arguing that the drop off is because the US is half way through the Presidential cycle, and yet I remember reading last year, […]
Oh God, please no! plus something odd going on at Techcrunch
A new service for backing up photos: Backupr. Another wankr name. I feel sick. What’s really odd though is that the post I saw in Bloglines about it at Techcrunch has oddly been deleted from the Techcrunch site: to this: It’s also not on the main page at the time of writing either…which can only […]
AOL Data, OMG!
Check this and this out…both awful and extremely funny at the same time. PS: no pics but content NSFW. (via BlackHat-SEO Blog) Tags: AOL data
Is Web 2.0 actually a vicious circle?
Steve Rubel makes a very, very brilliant observation on Web 2.0 today… Quietly, an entire Web 2.0 economy has blossomed. The Web sites and blogs that cover Web 2.0 – sites that I really love – are largely supported by ads from startups that also are hoping to capitalize in the rising interest in online […]
Digg over Dugg?
There’s trouble afoot at Digg today, I keep getting this message: Perhaps it’s time Kevin Rose sold out and let someone with some extra server capacity take over 🙂 Tags: Digg, Digg down, Digg not working
Sure, it’s a storm, but there’s lots of bubble activity out on the sea
Grouper purchased by Sony for $65m USD, roughly $70 – $120 USD per user. This is seriously, seriously, nuts. The company that does it’s best to ruin music for all of us with its crappy rootkits and DRM technology buys a video sharing service….wonder how long it takes till Grouper dies….6 months, 12 months? with […]
Screw You…and your trademark
From The Register: “A businessman has failed to win the right to register the term “screw you” as a wide-ranging European trademark because it is offensive. It can be used, but only for goods sold in sex shops, the European trademark authority has ruled.”
It’s just not cricket!
Cheeky sods! Tags: b5media, Creative Weblogging
Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup Video
According to Greywolf, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video is the next big thing in the States…can’t say I’ve heard of the Chicken Noodle Soup Video or Chicken Noodle Soup song for that matter, but here it is, the Chicken Noodle Soup Video! Sort of Chicken Dance comes rap..sort of…bizarre. Tags: Watch the Chicken Noodle Soup […]
The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State
Inspired by Darren’s recent list making competitions, I present some facts for those who think Australia is nothing more than an American State: The 10 ways Australia would be different if we were an American State 1. Our currency would be made out of paper and would be green. Not only would it be really […]